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The Port Washington-Saukville School District became a poster child for school security Tuesday when Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel toured Thomas Jefferson Middle School to tout his department’s safety grant program that will help finance a new secure entrance at the Port school.

Several cars on I-43 made an unwelcome splash recently when they drove through a concrete slurry mix that inadvertently spilled onto the highway

“People’s cars were coated with a white concrete sludge” underneath, on the wheels and on their paint finishes, Ozaukee County Public Works Director John Edgren told the county Public Works Committee last week.

The slurry is a byproduct of diamond grinding as part of the I-43 reabilitation project.

Water is used to cool blades that chew up old concrete in preparation for reconstruction.

The steel structure is starting to go up for the Lake Harbor Lofts project on the former Victor’s site in Port Washington’s marina district as aldermen last week agreed to apply for a $330,000 loan to help finance Ansay Development for the project.

The city agreed to the tax incremental financing loan earlier this year to help pay for remediation and demolition on the property off Washington Street.

“It’s exciting to finally see it coming out of the ground,” Ian McCain, Ansay’s design/construction manager, said Tuesday.

Almost 10 years to the day that Possibility Playground in Port Washington’s Upper Lake Park opened, a celebration of the play area for children of all abilities will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30.

The free ice cream party will be held at the Kiwanis shelter immediately next to the playground.

“It’s a 10th birthday party,” said Mardy McGarry, who with Sue Mayer spearheaded the effort to create the playground more than a decade ago.

One of the two grants needed to purchase a 101-acre nature preserve in the proposed Cedar Vineyard subdivision on Port Washington’s southeast side is set to expire at the end of September.

A Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources stewardship grant awarded to the Ozaukee Washington Land Trust that would provide $1 million, or half the funds needed to buy the preserve is set to expire Sept. 30, but DNR grant manager Jennifer Gihring said it is likely to be extended.

The culprit, as anyone who has stepped outside recently knows, is mosquitoes. While the pesky insects emerge every year, the August flood and persistent rain have seemingly created swarms of the biting bug.